The Biola University baseball team completed a nonconference two-game sweep of visiting Bethany University on Tuesday as senior right-hander Josh Baas scattered five hits in seven shutout innings in an 8-0 victory.

Junior center fielder Chris Foreman had two hits, including a triple, and scored two runs, and junior shortstop Nick Rotkowitz had a pair of hits and drove in two runs to pace the Eagles.

Biola opened the competition Monday with a wild, come-from-behind, 11-9 victory that featured Kris Cook’s game-winning, two-out, two-run home run in the 10th inning.

Biola had extended the game with three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning that included Matt McQueen’s two-run single to tie the score, 9-9.

Steven Alexander pitched the last two innings, including striking out the side in the 10th, to pick up the win.

Foreman had four hits, McQueen had three and Scott Nelson drove in four runs.

Against Westmont earlier this year, Holmquist coached his 1,000th game, but the Warriors put a damper on it by handing the Eagles a loss.

This time, the Eagles celebrated as Holmquist captured his 700th win at Biola.

King made five of nine shots from the field and was 7-for-7 in free throws. Danny Jones had 14 points and 13 rebounds.

BIOLA WOMEN FALL

Elise Paty had her season high of 18 points, all of them on 6-for-9 on 3-pointers, but Biola’s women dropped a 75-56 decision to visiting Westmont on Tuesday.

Biola held a five-point lead at halftime, but Westmont countered with five players scoring in double figures to put together a 47-23 scoring edge in the second half.

Westmont took the lead 1:30 after intermission and, following five-lead changes, the Warriors a 15-0 run for a 63-51 advantage with 4:22 to play.

The Eagles begin their final road trip of the season on Saturday (Feb. 23) at Concordia. The teams are tied for the eighth and final spot in the GSAC playoffs, one game ahead of San Diego Christian.

MENDOZA IMPRESSES

Former La Serna High School swimmer Paul Mendoza, Biola’s distance specialist, set two school records during the recent Pacific Collegiate Swimming Championships at Belmont Olympic Plaza pool in Long Beach.

Mendoza, a freshman, broke his record in the 400 IM with a time of 4:18.98 to finish 11th overall. He then closed out the meet with a clocking of 16:38.67 and fifth place in the mile.

Freshmen April Smith also set a school record of 1:08.67 in the 100 breaststroke.

The Eagles placed in the middle of the pack which was dominated by a number of talented NCAA Division I and II schools. The women placed 10th out of 14 teams while the men were seventh out of nine schools.

DIFFICULT TRIP

The Eagles’ softball team went 1-3 in a pair of doubleheaders against NCAA Division II opponents during a brief trip to the Bay area.

In Tuesday’s opener against Notre Dame de Namur in Belmont, senior pitcher Emily Gray (2-1) gave up four hits, struck out seven and walked three as the Eagles won, 2-1, in nine innings.

After seven scoreless innings, the teams matched single runs in the eighth before Erin DaSilva’s second hit of the game scored Krista Johnson with the game-winning run.

Biola had given pitcher Ericka Moyer a 3-0 advantage through five innings. But after two outs in the sixth, Moyer surrendered a single, triple and double for two runs.

In the seventh, she was victimized by an error that extended the inning and a two-run double gave the Argos a 4-3 victory.

DaSilva led Biola again with two hits.

Biola’s pitching took a pounding in Monday’s doubleheader as San Francisco State had 33 hits, including four home runs in 9-0 and 10-1 victories in games that ended early on an eight-run mercy rule.

Biola managed just one hit in the opener, a leadoff single by freshman Lauren Gandy to start the game.

EARLY ENDING

Rain prematurely ended Biola’s women’s tennis match against the University of Alberta at the Biola Tennis Center on Tuesday.

Biola lost all three doubles matches and two singles matches when coaches from both teams agreed to call it a day because of a steady drizzle. The Eagles trailed, 5-0.